1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
Europe/London timezone

Entanglement and renormalization-group flow

2 Sept 2026, 14:20
20m
155 (Jubilee Building)

155

Jubilee Building

Speaker

Nikolaos Tetradis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))

Description

I discuss the entanglement entropy for a free scalar field within a spherical region in various gravitational backgrounds (flat, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space, the Einstein universe). In the first part I focus on the structure of the divergences. Universal coefficients are determined for ultraviolet and infrared divergent terms. In the second part I discuss the use of the finite part of the entropy for the calculation of a c-function in 1+1 dimensions and an a-function in 3+1 dimensions.

Affiliation National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Career status Senior

Author

Nikolaos Tetradis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))

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